Sonic Cinema

Sounds, Visions and Insights by Brian Skutle

Five Favorite Movies

  1. “Sherlock Jr.” (1924)
  2. “The Crow” (1994)
  3. “Hugo” (2011)
  4. “Braveheart” (1995)
  5. “Pulp Fiction” (1994)

Five Best Movies

  1. “Vertigo” (1958)
  2. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968)
  3. “Schindler’s List” (1993)
  4. “Pulp Fiction” (1994)
  5. “Andrei Rublev” (1966)

Five Worst Movies

  1. “I Spit On Your Grave” (1978)
  2. “An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn” (1998)
  3. “Glen or Glenda?” (1953)
  4. “Troll 2” (1990)
  5. “The Room” (2003)

Five Favorite Actors/Actresses

  1. Amber Benson (TV’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”)
  2. John Cusack (“High Fidelity”)
  3. Kate Winslet (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”)
  4. Mel Gibson (“Lethal Weapon”)
  5. Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“(500) Days of Summer”)

Five Favorite Movie Characters

  1. Projectionist (Buster Keaton), “Sherlock Jr.”
  2. Celine (Julie Delpy), “Before Sunrise” & “Before Sunset”
  3. Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield), “Hugo”
  4. Father Brian Finn (Edward Norton), “Keeping the Faith”
  5. Charlie & Donald Kaufman (Nicolas Cage), “Adaptation.”

Five Favorite Filmmakers

  1. Steven Spielberg (“E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial”)
  2. Joss Whedon (TV’s “Firefly”)
  3. Andrei Tarkovsky (“Stalker”)
  4. Martin Scorsese (“GoodFellas”)
  5. Stanley Kubrick (“The Shining”)

Five Favorite Film Soundtracks

  1. “The Crow”
  2. “2001: A Space Odyssey”
  3. “Vertigo”
  4. “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
  5. “Broken Arrow”

Five Favorite Film Composers

  1. Ennio Morricone (“Lolita”)
  2. Hans Zimmer (“The Lion King”)
  3. John Williams (The “Star Wars” Saga)
  4. Danny Elfman (“Big Fish”)
  5. Howard Shore (“The Lord of the Rings”)
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